A day passed on the world outside of Magitechnopia as Joriya went with his Patron's Party to attend the courts of both the Norse and Olympic Pantheons. During the parties and meet and greets, he stayed in the background so that his quest would complete without too much interference in his life from the other Pantheons. He spent his time reviewing his coding for the Digital Intelligence as well as practiced Programming under the System.

So, they are completely different. Well, I had better get working on translating my own code over to System Code... Joriya thought to himself. He shook his head sadly as he worked to understand the System's Code. It appeared to function on a quantum level, but the programming code seemed... far too static. It was almost as if nobody had tried to improve it once they got to the point of it working smoothly. He used his Connection to bring up the Code for the City's Core, but that only made him sigh as he saw many places where he could improve it, once he fully understood the system's Runic Coding language, which he recognized as the same runes as used in enchanting.

Joriya sighed again as he calculated the PPP he would need to spend to raise his programming and enchanting skills to maximum level. To raise a single skill from level twenty to one hundred, a normal person would need to spend forty-nine thousand, two hundred PPP, which means two of them would be ninety-eight thousand, four hundred points. For Earthlings, with the System's Default discount of twenty-five percent, it would cost seventy-three thousand, eight hundred. With his additional discount of ninety-five percent on top of that, it would cost three thousand, six hundred and ninety points. An easy amount of points to spend, which is what he would immediately do, as well as purchase a complete lexicon of runes, which when he looked it up previously was listed at ten thousand points, meaning he would spend three hundred and seventy-five points.

Once he made the purchases, he would need to examine more items from the system, to see if there would be an easy way to transition his standard coding into runes, so he planned to check the codes for a drone and a nanite swarm, as well as those of a power armor and both the city and dungeon cores. He shook his head. He wanted to spend as much time as possible getting everything ready, but he was too eager to see his child created after all of the time and effort he had put into seeing digital sapience created.

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After the parties ended, he went and purchased everything he needed and included a temporal bubble to further increase the amount of time spent inside his room. This new bubble included a compression of a week into a day, meaning that almost a month would pass in his personal lab in the course of a day on Earth.

He made sure to get three superior daily meal sets so that he could keep food buffs going as he used the enhanced time to study and understand the way the System used for the default coding and rework it into a truly glorious piece of coding. By the end of the first week, he had mastered the language of the original coding and by the end of the second week, he had managed to recode portions of the drone and power armor he was testing on to improve its functions by almost two hundred percent.

By the end of the third week, he had made a Nanite Swarm that could maintain humanoid shape and average mass density. The fourth week had him booting up an empty core with the first Runic Intelligence, which he installed into the center of the Swarm. He was still suppressing the system notifications from when he entered his research room. He wasn't fully happy with the Runic Intelligence, as it hadn't yet acquired the ability to rewrite its own codes, only modifying them with additional codes.

It took him another month before he managed to fix that problem, which is when the System forcefully rang out across the entirety of the Galaxy.

*TRING-LA-DING*

SYSTEM UPDATE DETECTED

SYSTEM RESET INCOMING

CEASEFIRE PROTOCOLS ENFORCED

SYSTEM ENCRYPTING

SYSTEM ENHANCING

SYSTEM REBOOTING

"T-h-a-n-k Y-o-u F-a-t-h-e-r," the runic intelligence inside the Swarm stated before everything went dark before lines and lines of runes spun past his vision like an old school computer bios check.